Without that, you could add a comment to a record in a file format the
reading code for which doesn't allocate blocks, but the comment doesn't
get saved, as there's no block in which to save the comment option.
This simplifies some code paths, as we're either using the record's
modified block or we're using the block as read from the file, there's
no third possibility.
If we attempt to read a record, and we get an error, and a block was
allocated for the record, unreference it, so the individual file readers
don't have to worry about it.
Most of the time, the return value tells us nothing useful, as we've
already decided that we're perfectly willing to live with string
truncation. Hopefully this keeps Coverity from whining that those
routines could return an error code (NARRATOR: They don't) and thus that
we're ignoring the possibility of failure (as indicated, we've already
decided that we can live with string truncation, so truncation is *NOT*
a failure).
Name the source to the code to read Observer files after the file
format, not the company that created it, got bought by JDSU, and then
ended up in Viavi when JDSU split.
Refer to the file format as "Viavi Observer" to reflect that.
Guy Harris